Focus: Through Cinema We Shall Rise!
Overview of films
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Serfs
Bonded labourers battle oppressive feudal overlords with the help of Mao’s benevolent soldiers, in this propaganda film.
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Santi-Vina
Star-crossed lovers run up against social constraints in a gentle, timeless tale of doomed romance.
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Four Rivers Six Ranges
An electrifying period actioner chronicling an armed resistance to the occupation of Tibet.
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The Open Door
An adaptation of Latifa al-Zayyat’s iconic coming-of-age novel about a woman’s political and sexual awakening.
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Tiger Talk: Through Cinema We Shall Rise!
Researchers and a filmmaker trace the Afro-Asian Film Festival’s history and explore articulations of the ‘Bandung Spirit’.
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Freedom for Ghana + Law of Baseness
(Post-)colonial celebration and indictment: two documentaries about Africa.
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The Red Detachment of Women
Former captive servant joins an all-women army troop in a fierce feminist ballad of the revolution.
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A Phu and His Wife
Young lovers break free from the feudal-imperial complex in a tale of revolutionary romance.
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Five Golden Flowers
Searching for his beloved, a paramour keeps encountering her namesakes in a delightful romantic musical.
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Law of Baseness
A tour through Africa forms a scathing anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist indictment of the West.
